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CHAPEL HILL --- North Carolina opens its 39th season of women's basketball Friday when the Tar Heels host in-state foe Davidson at Carmichael Arena at 5 p.m. Friday's contest is an opening round game in the 2012 Preseason WNIT, an event Carolina won in 2008.

UNC was 20-11 last season and missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2000-01. Davidson went 22-10 a year ago and was the regular-season co-champion in the Southern Conference. The winner of the UNC-Davidson game will play the winner of the Liberty-Duquesne game on Sunday.

AT A GLANCERecords: North Carolina 0-0, Davidson 0-0Rankings: Neither team is ranked.TV: GoHeels TV. Today's game will be streamed live via GoHeels TV at GoHeels.com. Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network, a division of Learfield Communications. Walter Storholt (play-by-play) has the call. Today's game is an Internet-only broadcast. A link to the live stream can be found at GoHeels.com.On The Web: GoHeels.com • Twitter: @UNCWBB • @UNCWBBCoach

SERIES NOTES• North Carolina is 3-0 all-time against Davidson and 2-0 against the Wildcats in Chapel Hill.• The Tar Heels and Wildcats have met just twice in the last 10 years - an 86-48 UNC win in 2005 and a 68-46 Tar Heel victory in 2002. Both of those meetings were the season opener for Carolina.• Prior to 2002, the two schools had not met in women's basketball since Carolina's inaugural season of 1974-75. The Tar Heels were 80-31 road winners that season.

CAROLINA IN SEASON OPENERS• The Tar Heels will look to post their 12th straight win in a season opener Friday afternoon.• Carolina last lost its opener in 2000, when the Tar Heels fell to Buffalo, 95-89. That also marks the last time UNC did not play its opener in Chapel Hill.• Carolina is 33-5 all-time in season openers, including a 22-4 mark under Sylvia Hatchell.• UNC routed Gardner-Webb, 109-44, in the 2011-12 opener. The 109 points were the second-most by a Tar Heel team in a season opener since 1982-83, when Carolina started its season with a 114-50 victory at Appalachian State. UNC scored 110 in its 2010-11 opener against North Florida.